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In Charleville, residents say the use of ice is becoming more common and there are fears it will get worse as the local economy suffers because of drought. Young Aboriginal people are especially vulnerable - many of whom are unemployed and gripped by poverty. The town is ill equipped to deal with the ...

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Organisations like the Womens Christian Temperance Movement, The Young Womens Christian Association and the Mothers Union played an active role in reforming Australian culture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. They successfully campaigned in favour of laws against drink ...

Giving a problem drinker alcohol or a former drug user heroin can overcome their addiction, that's the belief of a former addict and now addiction psychologist and researcher. Dr Adi Jaffe believes that people with addictionsalcohol or drugsfear the label of "recovered addict" more than they do ...

For the past 16 years, the only medically supervised injection centre in the southern hemisphere has been operating in the heart of Sydney's Kings Cross. But that's all set to change. Following a spike in drug related deaths in Melbourne's North Richmond the Victorian Government has recently ...

The United States is in the grip of an opioid crisis. According to the Centers of Disease Control, 145 Americans die every day from opioid overdose, with many hundreds of thousands living life as addicts. Last month President Trump declared opioid addiction a public health emergency. But to ...